2007-01-04 16:25:00 · 8 answers · asked by askandanswer 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
This is a philosophical question. I am really looking at how we don't really discuss how the first piece of anything, or existence, or space came about (relevant to the big bang which generally assumes the existence of something beforehand). The debate as to if space has been here forever.
2007-01-04 18:45:02 · update #1
Before the first space-time pulse there had to be a potential.
We can say zero is eternal but then the big bang could not have happened.{ we know it did]
The potential had to be finite to emerge into us.
I know it seems controversial to say zero is finite but it had to be something like that.
But what prodded the potential?
2007-01-05 01:21:00 · answer #1 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The beginning of the space/time is precisely what the Big Bang is about! There is no "before" because time simply did not exist. This is almost impossible to get our heads around (unless you are Steven Hawking). It comes out of the mathematics. It is not intuitive or even model-able for our natural time-dependent thought processes.
2007-01-05 00:57:10 · answer #2 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because our physics simply break down.
We think that all 4 basic forces were combined into one force before the "bang". They split off into what we now know quite rapidly during the expansion phase or right around there. We don't know "why" or how. Our physics break down even at the edge of a black hole much less inside of one. The big bang is way way beyond even that.
2007-01-05 00:32:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we simply don't have any information, because the physical laws that we are currently aware of break down in singularities (before the big bang and the centers of black holes).
Since we can't talk scientifically about what there was before the big bang, we just talk about what happened after - what can be proved mathematically.
2007-01-05 00:57:49 · answer #4 · answered by powhound 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a philosophical question, which I personally find even more interesting! I dont agree that there was "nothingness" though...
2007-01-05 01:52:14 · answer #5 · answered by jebudas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don,t know but, what if you could get into a craft,leave earth and travel until you expire (at the speed of light) ? how much farther is there??
2007-01-05 00:40:20 · answer #6 · answered by billybob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe there was nothingness nor do I believe it was a singularity. i believe it was collision between dimensions.
2007-01-05 02:02:05 · answer #7 · answered by Red 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who is to say there was ever nothingness?
2007-01-05 00:33:21 · answer #8 · answered by The Maestro 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋